Philippa Langley

With an enduring passion to tell stories that challenge our perception of established truths, Philippa Langley is a screenwriter and producer who inaugurated and led the successful archaeological search to locate King Richard III’s grave in Leicester. Her 90-minute documentary, The King in the Car Park, about the search for King Richard, made with Channel Four and Darlow Smithson Productions, was aired on 4th February 2013 and commanded an audience of six million. Based on her Looking For Richard Project, it became the channel's highest rated specialist factual show in its thirty-year history. It won the 2013 Royal Television Society Award for Best History Programme and was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA in the category of TV: Specialist Factual.  Her screenplay on the life of King Richard, the most controversial monarch in British history, is based on contemporary source materials from the king's lifetime. She was made an MBE in 2015.

Co-authored with Michael Jones her The King’s Grave – The Search for Richard III was published in 2013 by John Murray in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the USA, released as major film-tie in The Lost King.

Her revelatory and acclaimed The Princes in the Tower - Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case was published in the UK and USA in November 2023.